Kaixo! On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 04:51:32PM +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> > I had read that iso-8859-11 was intended for the Thai encoding, but it was > > refused because tis-620 has composing chars, which is an exclusion clause > > for the iso-8859-* family. > > Replace "refused" by "delayed". Well, a very long delay it was :) > > I would be interested to learn about the published ISO 8859-11, do you have > > an url ? > > Only the usual one > > >http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=28263&ICS1=35&ICS2=40&ICS3= > > where you can buy it for 56 CHF (no, they don't take euros there, yet). I'm a bit reluctant to pay just to learn that it is no more than tis-620 under another name. Access to that kind of information shouldn't be made on fee base; it is not for the price in itself (I can pay it), but the idea behind; do you imagine the Mendeleev table being available only for a fee ? > ISO 8859-11 (Information technology -- 8-bit single-byte coded graphic > character sets -- Part 11: Latin/Thai alphabet) was apparently published > 2001-12-13. I don't have a copy of either ISO 8859-11 or TIS 602, so I can't > compare the two myself. for tis-620 there is a page (in Thai) at http://www.nectec.or.th/it-standards/std620/std620.htm and some interesting info in English at: http://www.inet.co.th/cyberclub/trin/thairef/#ThaiCharsetStds -- Ki ça vos våye bén, Pablo Saratxaga http://www.srtxg.easynet.be/ PGP Key available, key ID: 0x8F0E4975 -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
